Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
James Stark & J.W. Robberds: 'Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, Comprising The Yare, The Waveney and The Bure', Norwich and London, John Stacy et al, 1834, added engraved vignette title page, 24 engraved plates + 11 vignettes as called for, ex lib (discreet markings verso title page and small ticket front pastedown, else no other markings), folio, lavishly bound in full Levant Morocco decorated and tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges...
Sale Price: £200.00
Francis Stone: 'Picturesque Views of all the Bridges Belonging to the County of Norfolk in a Series of Eighty-Four Prints in Lithography', [1830] 1st edition, lithograph title + 84 lithograph plates by Engelman after Francis Stone as called for, oblong folio, old half morocco gilt,
Sale Price: £220.00
(Four early Broads books) J.W. Robberds Jnr.: 'Geological and Historical Observations on the Eastern Vallies of Norfolk', Bacon & Kinnebrook, 1826, 1st edition, contemporary boards (rebacked); C.J. & James Paget: 'Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood', Yarmouth, Skill, 1834, 1st edition, contemporary half calf gilt; W. Hewitt: 'An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean along the Norfolk Coast', Norwich, 1844, 1st edition, 2 litho plates as called for, old...
Sale Price: £140.00
Walter White: 'Eastern England, from the Thames to the Humber', Chapman & Hall, 1865, 1st edition, 2 volumes, contains one of the earliest records in print of a trip on the broads, contemporary cloth gilt (2)
Sale Price: £30.00
Henry Stevenson & Thomas Southwell: 'The Birds of Norfolk', London & Norwich, 1866-1890, 1st edition, 3 volumes, 1 portrait plate, 5 coloured plates + 3 tinted litho plates, original cloth gilt (3)
Sale Price: £130.00
Frank Buckland, 2 titles: 'Report on the Fisheries of Norfolk, Especially Crabs, Lobsters, Herrings, and The Broads', House of Commons, 1875, 84pp, illustrations, original printed wraps; 'Notes and Jottings from Animal Life', 1886, new edition, contains chapter ''Notes from Yarmouth'' pp185-209, original cloth gilt (2)
Sale Price: £42.00
George Christopher Davies, 3 titles: 'Mountain, Meadow & Mere', 1874, 2nd edition, original pictorial cloth, authors first book, some content related to Norfolk and The Broads; 'The Swan and Her Crew', circa 1880, 5th edition, frontis + illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk', 1890, 15th edition revised and enlarged, folding map in rear pocket, original cloth gilt, plus P. Fisher [i.e. William Andrew Chatto]:...
Sale Price: £60.00
George Christopher Davies, 3 titles: 'The Swan and Her Crew', [1876], 1st edition, frontis + 6 full page and numerous in text illustrations as called for, 32pp adverts at end, original pictorial cloth gilt, (rebacked, original backstrip retained), authors first book specifically based on The Broads; 'Norfolk Broads & Rivers', 1884, new edition, 7 plates as called for, original pictorial cloth; 'The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk', 1887, 9th edition...
Sale Price: £38.00
George Christopher Davies: 'The Scenery of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk & Suffolk', Jarrold & Sons, [1883], first and second series, 1st edition, 33 (of 48) photogravure plates by Annan taken from Davies' photographs, various images including Beccles, Lowestoft, Norwich, Coltishall, Horning, Waveney, Bure, Ant, Wensum etc etc, plus one duplicate (Burgh Castle), the two original quarter cloth portfolio bindings and the folio leaves of plates all housed loose in two modern folders, the...
George Christopher Davies, 4 titles: 'Norfolk Broads and Rivers', 1883, 1st edition, 12 photogravure plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk', circa 1900, 20th edition, scarce ''Jarrolds' Register of Yachts and Boats for Hire'' 4pp pamphlet tipped in at front, folding map in rear pocket, original pictorial yellow boards, plus an 1884 new edition of 'Norfolk Broads and Rivers', 7 plates as called...
Sale Price: £35.00
George Christopher Davies, 4 titles: 'Norfolk Broads and Rivers', 1883, 1st edition, 12 photogravure plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'Practical Boat Building and Sailing', [1885], numerous illustrations and adverts as called for, original cloth gilt; 'Practical Boat Sailing for Amateurs', c.1894, illustrations (some folding) + adverts as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk', circa 1900, 19th edition, folding map in rear...
Sale Price: £40.00
[Count D'Epremesiul]: 'En Wherry - Trois semaines dans les Broads du Norfolk', Paris, 1892, 1st edition, 5 photogravure plates + folding map as called for, contemporary full morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, original pictorial top wrap bound in, Duke of Leinster Carton House Library armorial bookplate to front pastedown, scarce, plus H.M. Doughty: 'Our Wherry in Wendish Lands: From Friesland, through the Mecklenburg Lakes, to Bohemia', [1893], 1st edition, original decorative cloth gilt, plus...
Sale Price: £95.00
George Christopher Davies/Badminton Library, 6 volumes: 'Yachting', 1894, 1st edition, 2 volumes, contains chapter ''Yachting on The Norfolk Broads'' by GC Davies p190-226; 'Fishing - Pike and other Coarse Fish', 1887, 3rd edition, contains chapter ''Norfolk Broad & River Fishing'' by GC Davies p352-375, plus 3 other Badminton Library 1st editions, 'Hunting', 1885; 'Shooting - Moor & Marsh', 1886; 'Driving', 1889, all illustrations throughout, all original cloth (6)
Sale Price: £48.00
[Edward Empson Middleton]: 'The Cruise of The Kate. A Narrative of a Very Merry Wherry Expedition Through the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk, by One of the Crew.', Stamford, 1886, 1st edition, double page map, 137pp, original printed card wraps, inner joints split, leaves loose (but all present), neatly rebacked. Early and comprehensive professionally written example of the 'Holidays on the Broads' genre. Very scarce
J.F. Mostyn Clarke: 'Three weeks in Norfolk : being a portion of the ''Rover's'' log', London, Wyman, 1887, 1st edition, 9 full page black and white plates as called for, original blind stamped cloth gilt. Attractively illustrated tale of a Broads boating trip by the writer and his artist friend starting from Yarmouth, on the yacht Rover, skippered by a local whose conduct left much to be desired, with several pages devoted to the altercations...
Sale Price: £80.00
Walter Rye, 3 titles: 'A month on the Norfolk Broads : on board the wherry, ''Z?e,'' and its tender, the tub, ''Lotus.''', [1887], 1st edition, 4 folding maps + illustrations as called for, original pictorial boards; 'The rights of fishing, shooting, & sailing on the Norfolk Broads', [1892], 1st edition, original printed card wraps; 'A History of Norfolk', 1885, 1st edition, contains 30pp chapter ''The Broads and Marshes'', original two tone cloth gilt (3)
Sale Price: £65.00
